Standard Red Oak Bokken

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Product Code:013-BKH12RS-[X]

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This Standard Red Oak Bokken is made of quality Japanese Red Oak (Akagashi) and features a flat spine and flat butt. Available in Long, Middle and Short versions.This long model is recommended for Aikido and Koryu pracitioner for suburi and general paired contact kata practice.

What is Japanese Red Oak?

The Red Oak Wood used for Japanese Bokken, also called 'Akagashi', greatly differs from the Red Oak Wood referred to when speaking about North American Bokken.
While the North American Oak and Japanese Oak are related, the Japanese Oak tree is evergreen, due to this it does not have a conspicuous open grain like the American White and Red Oak.
The open grain structure, of the American Oak wood produces soft areas which are more prone to impact damage.
Akagashi on the other hand has a structure that is uniformly hard, has excellent dent resistance and has better impact strength than American Oaks.
Nowadays Akagashi is a quite rare and expensive even in Japan, and is mostly used for making high quality Bokken.

Dimension

Long (Daitō)

Medium (Chūtō)

Short (Shotō)

Length (cm)

101.5

91

54.5

Blade (cm)

75.5

68

41

Handle (cm)

26

23

13.5

Handle section (mm)

37x26

35x25

35x25

Approximate weight*

470

380

250

*Due to the nature of the material, weight is given indicatively and can be subject to variation.